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A Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help
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About this work
Gros specialized in large battle paintings memorializing the feats of Napoleon (1769-1821). This Orientalist military subject records Napoleon's campaign in Egypt against the British Empire. It also demonstrates how spontaneously the artist could draw on the lithograph stone.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineA Mameluke Chief on Horseback Signaling for Help, 1817. Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771–1835). Lithograph. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection, 1940.1117
